March 28, 2010

And churches aren’t supposed to be meeting places for the holier than most crowd either.

It just seems that way sometimes.

Jesus said it’s the sick that need a doctor, not those who think they are well,or at least are trying to act like they’re well.

That being said in reality a church should really be a spiritual hospital with Dr. Jesus as the Great Physician. Allot of churches are finally getting that. Thank God mine is one them.

We recognize that there are allot of hurting people out there who if they have to pretend everything’s perfect in their life they’re going to explode.

At Grace Fellowship in the Albany NY area we just started a whole bunch of workshops on a whole slew of issues. Everything from dealing with various addictions, to caring for elderly parents, to Understanding Depression.

The latter was the one that caught my eye.

Most of the time I talk about spiritual issues over at “Lucky Loser” but this needed to be said here.

If your house of worship isn’t a place where there’s a safe place to let your guard down you need to find a place where you can.

Imagine a hospital in the natural where you had to act like you were well most of the time.

It’s time for real Christians and real churches around the world to stand up and be counted. Drop the smarmy PC speech and just preach The Truth in love!

This is all about spiritual warfare. The kind that is waged because our champion already won the greatest victory and now we’re claiming the prize.

This kind of fighting the followers of Baal (aka Allah) have no clue about because they’re deceived by the father of lies. But we the people of the book the followers of our Jewish Messiah and Christ to the world who know who the real enemy is we must wage our jihad against him using weapons that are not natural. These are things like prayer, praise and worship.

October 10, 2009

“Pastor Benny Hinn is being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee and was recently denied entry into the United Kingdom. The press has been bad, he says, because the media doesn’t understand him.”

If he has any shred of of legitimacy Benny Hinn should welcome the Senate investigation with open arms to clear what’s remaining of his reputation.

But it’s the matter in the UK that I find most troubling. That is, if it was anyone besides Benny Hinn I would find it troubling. Since he’s had such a questionable background (never mind the Senate investigation) the customs officials may have done the citizens of Great Britian a favor by denying Hinn passage into their country.

What if it was someone like (insert the name of your favorite Christian speaker or author here) John Piper or your senior pastor trying to attend a conference in London?

This may be just a paperwork snafu but it would be so much easier if the Brits grew some Margret Thatcher iron lady size grit and spell out the rules better. They’re meant to keep out the jihadists so they should be aimed more specifically at them .

The way the rules are now a large innocent looking mega mosque might be able to find a loophole they could exploit. That’s where the danger lies.